The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-08
the MAN ABOUT TOWN.

II you want to SEQ model Of beauty
and convenience in the way Of a store
room, visit Smiths new drug store. The
front Is entirely new and is made Of the
finest quality Of pressed brick and tile.
The two main front windows are made
each Of single piece Of the finest
French plate glass, surrounded by q
small margin Of the best quality of
stained glass. The oblique sides next
The door ere also glass, while the door
itself is Of the best quality Of cut glass
bordered with ornamental
The transom is made up of numerous
pieces OF stained glass thoroughly loaded
and 80 placed that the name "Smith" is
formed in colored letters, above which
gist's mortar. A handsome new awning
shades the door and windows, while
the upper part is handsomely decorated
with mansard roof, q gothic window
and ornamental tile. The inside has
been thoroughly remodeled and the
walls and ceiling papered, the floor
lowered, gilt mouldings put up, etc.,
which make it palatial store room.
If you don't want any thing in the
drug line 90 and see the new store any
how. You will find the genial proprie-
tors clever and accommodating gentle
men, who will be glad to have you come.
Let others catch the spirit Of improve.
ment and they will be surprised to find
what change few hundred invested
in this way will make.
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It is dead. The short, puny life Of
the "Red Onion" became extinct last
week. Poor thing! Its life was beset
by many difficulties, and from its origin
to its untimely death 1t was sorely op.
pressed and persecuted. Its growth was
merely parasitic,-a kind of a hanger-on
as it were, like the parasite on the dead
body of its former source of sustenance
and support. But the monster has re-
ceived death blow and the parasitic
"red onion" could no longer live. This
must be the inevitable fate OF all similar
outgrowths. When the origin of the
fount has been stopped sycophants
along the stream must wither and die.
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Well venture to say that no other
town of the same size in Ohio can pro-
duce better trained fire department
than Hillsboro. The other day when
the fire alarm was sounded it seemed no
time till the smoke.enveloped engine
was tearing down Walnut street in the
direction of the fire, and for the time
being the "man about town" was won
dering whether he was witnessing
turnout from the central engine house
in
well trained company. Our department
of doing prompt and efficient work.
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It is a habit Of some of our .profes-
sional loafers to perch themselves on
the stair steps leading to the second
story offices and then discharge tobacco
juice all over the steps. This is not
only disgusting but public nuisance,
and 1t is the province of our officers to
remove such offenders from these favor
ite loafng places. We have heard sew
eral doctors and lawyers complaining
about this, and we think Justly too.
Ladies passing up and down the steps
are not only disguised with the filth but
hesitate to ascend stairway which is
lined with lot of loafers who are al.
ways on the alert for something to make
some obscene remark about. Let the
officers rid the stairs of this nuisance.
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"Doctor, how do you stand on tho
temperance question ?" said to one of
our young Esculapisns.
"I am an advocate of temperance in
all things" said he, "and am a signer
myself Of the Murphy pledge"
Are alcoholic stimulants much used
in the treatment of disease ?'
"Yes, sir; but perhaps more than
necessary. Yet the alcoholic prepara-
tions are indispensable as therapeutic
agents, and I believe in certain cases
they are the only stimulants that can be
relied upon. While recognize the
great evil their abuse may bring about,
yet ! think their proper administration
has often saved lie in tiding over and
keeping up the vitality of the system in
various exhausting diseases. Our best
chemists and experimenters don't be.
lieve they contain any nutrition, and
hence are of no value as q food, but
their good effect in retarding waste OF
the system and in aiding in the proper
assimilation of food, is unquestionable.
This is in disease. No person needs al.
coholic stimulation in health"
"How do you stand ON prescribing
stimulants in Hillsboro :"
"Just the same "a I would elsewhere
I prescribe them nearly every day, and
il you 60 over to the drug store you will
find prescriptions from me there on file
An honorable and conscientious physi.
clan is duty bound to do all he can fol
the relief Of his patients, and when ]
think they need stimulants I prescribe
it. do it in good faith, and in profes
sional matters Of this kind usually dc
my own debating. I don't presume tc
dictate to the preacher or lawyer,-that'i
their business and not mine, and re-
serve the same right to myself. I admit
there has been some prescription.writ
ing in bad faith, but think the position
of the temperance people toward the
medical profession is entirely too radi
cal, and where resolutions are proposed
with q view to enlighten the profession
a. to when to write prescrip ptions fol
stimulants, ! think it is presuming tot
much, and has tendency to lower tn,
profession as q whole in the estimation
Of the laity on account Of the sims of
few. Such public condemnation is en-
tirely uncalled for, and does not tend {,
create kindly feeling toward the tenn
lperance cause by the innocent member
Of the profession. But as said in tn,